An Extensive Guide To Containerization And Some Of the Best Practices

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An Extensive Guide To Containerization And Some
Of The Best Practices
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• With the expansion and explosion of cloud
  computing arena, the need for containers is just
  getting a rise. If you are a tech-savvy
  programmer, you would have heard of containers
  and how they are changing the game of complex
  programming.
• The usage of the same is gaining all the
  attention from the industry. And its not a
  surprise that with so much of ease and
  flexibility, big Giants like Microsoft, Google
  and Amazon are adopting this approach.
• Few quality highlights are Adaptability,
  Efficiency, and High speed. Container approach
  simplifies dozens of task and also manages many
  applications. Erstwhile, managing hardware
  dedicatedly was a costly affair and more like a
  Tetris game. But container satisfied it all.
• A Container is a small file that combines the
  application code along with the libraries and
  other dependencies which are needed to run.

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• Regardless of the environment in which the
  application has to be run, a container packages
  the application libraries, environmental
  variables, software binaries configuration and
  more. It is a small file but with maximum
  flexibility and runs at a super speed owing to
  the usage of some underlying host operating
  systems resources. This also means various
  applications will have one underlying operating
  system and treats each application on its own.
• rogrammers yet may not have hands-on experience
  of working with containers and IT environment
  management tools. But containers definitely has
  made life easy for hundreds of thousands of
  developers and have increased the application
  performance with minimal effort.
• Here is the guide that sheds some light on the
  best benefits of working with containers and have
  an efficient IT environment management.
  Administrators can create containers and run many
  of them at a time, which consequently reduces the
  computing time and storage load.

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• They are cloud-friendly in nature, which allows
  the automatic deployment of the same. Few other
  benefits are
• Lightweight
• It is not required to have a full OS installed
  per application. It shares the machine OS Kernel
  which makes them small and compact in size and
  easy on resources.

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Efficient and Scalability Since the size of
the container is considerably small, they can
easily be spin up and deleted whenever required.
It makes the IT environment agile, which further
helps in growing business leaps and bounds. It
shouldnt come as a surprise to have thousands of
containers in a single computing environment.
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Portable As described above, a container has all
the dependencies, libraries covered with it. This
means it can run on a variety of computing
environments without consuming much time and
making the complicated process much easier. Also,
it extends support to automation replacing the
manual scripting. This way, it creates a more
guaranteed and maximised portability.
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Supports Agile Development Containers are
created, keeping in mind the cloud-first
development. Being agile, containers support
continuous integration for a DevOps environment.
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It offers enhanced computing capabilities An
application can be divided into many domains all
within one single container. Owing to the highly
portable nature, the execution of containers on
different cloud platforms becomes easy and
efficient. The developers have the freedom to
choose the platform on which they want their
application to run depending on the cost and
performance efficiency requirement.
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Leverages policy-based Optimization The
automation facility provides an extra layer which
will help in locating the best platform to
execute the application. Also, the containers
deal automatically with the configuration and
meet the requirement.
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• The next part focuses on practices that can be
  implemented for scaling containers
• Invest sufficient time for designing a proper
  architecture of container-based applications.
  Insufficient and poor designs often lead to
  scaling issues with containers
• It is advisable to have a proof of concept in
  order to find out the real scaling capabilities.
  It is allowed to take the help of automated
  testing tools for stimulating the workloads and a
  considerable amount of data for Test environment
  management tool.
• Do not follow the approach followed by others.
  The companys requirement may differ from the one
  you are taking inspiration from. What works for
  them may not work for your company.
• Do not compromise or overlook the security and
  governance of the application. Along with the
  scaling of containers, even these properties have
  to be scaled.

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The scaling factor may confuse and look a bit
tricky, but with sufficient understanding and
knowledge of the containers and the technology,
you can bloom out the right scalable strategy.
Containerization thus gives wings to the
administrators for running more applications than
ever before. It helps the team build robust and
agile applications in less time and involving
fewer efforts. So lets get Containerizing and
cope up the business with the changing business
scenario.
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